Use the keyword to create the cipher alphabet Convert the letters in your text to their replacements from the cipher alphabet Get a keyword, the text to be encrypted, and whether to encrypt or decrypt Output the transformed text The Keyword Cipher Algorithm How To Create The Cipher Alphabet G D E F A B C G D E F A B C G D E F A B C BEEF BEF 1. Start with a copy of the regular alphabet 2. Get a keyword 3. Remove duplicate letters from the keyword 4. Remove the keyword letters from the regular alphabet 5. Put the keyword letters at the beginning of the cipher alphabet, and append the remaining letters from the regular alphabet to the end of the cipher alphabet How To Encrypt The Text 1. Find the regular alphabet location of each character in your text 2. Replace that character with the cipher alphabet character from the same location To decrypt you simply swap the regular and cipher alphabets and run the same process FADED BADGE DBACA EBAGC G D E F A B C G D E F A B C FADED BADGE DBACA EBAGC G D E F A B C G D E F A B C
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